Last Flirtation On The Hudson Aboard The Mary Powell
Jerome Muscroft meets Marie Lorimer on the Mary Powell as the ship sails past Palisades toward Cornwall on the Hudson. Their brief exchange exposes his flirtatious boldness and her sharp retort. He later learns Marie is his aunt and resolves to end his flirtations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerome Muscroft
West Twentyfourth Street
Mary Powell
Jerome
Muscroti
Jove
Muscroii
Powell
Muscroft
Archibald ‘Trevor
Cornwall-on-the-Hudson
Maine
Cornwall
Tappan Zee
Marie Lorimer
Hudson
America
Amsterdam
Marie
West Shore
New York
Use and Abuse of the Brain Lecture by Dr Hammond
Dr William A. Hammond told a crowd of teachers that anxiety and other emotions harm the brain more than hard study. He praised the brain’s gray matter, warned eight hours at work is enough, and argued late shifts endanger health and life if mental strain remains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World
Industrial Education Association
University Place
William A. Hammond
Association
Dr. Hammond
Paula de Vignier the Beautiful of Toulouse
A feature on Paula de Vignier famed as one of the world’s most beautiful women with famed beauty lauded by contemporaries. Toulouse authorities faced crowds and riots over public unveilings prompting a policy of twice weekly window appearances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Revue Litterarie
Paula de Vignier
Paula
Toulouse
Major Trades for Buttons at Andersonville
A Union major in Confederate prison, famed for his courage, loses two coat buttons and trades for substitutes with Yankee prisoners. He buys buttons believed to match, pays two dollars, and flees the stockade amid laughter as his coat tails reveal the ruse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andersonville
Savannah
Sumter County
Capt
Lieut. C
Sehara
Cap
Fiirst
Lloyd G. Thompson
Paris stage scare ends with wife firing seven shots
During a performance of L Arlesienne at the Odeon Paris Mlle Veranoff’s tea guest M Marquet drew suspicion of infidelity. Mme Marquet shot him seven times wounding his left mustache head thigh shoulder teapot mirror and divan all amid a dramatic theater incident. The shooter fainted and was arrested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Odeon Theater
M.marquet
Frederic
M. Marquet
Marquet
Mlle
Sarah Veranoff
Conservatorie
Rue Gozlin
Mile Veranoff
Mme Marquet
Mme
Oconto County Pioneers Endorse Hibbard’s Rheumatic Syrup
A testimonial from Oconto Wis dated Sept 8 1887 praises Hibbard’s Rheumatic Syrup and Rheumatic Plasters. The writer claims the medicine acts on the whole system especially liver and kidneys and calls it the finest blood remedy and most honest medicine yet produced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oconto
Wis
Cole & Mitchell
Hibbard
O. C. Cook
Nickel Plate Railroad
Sanborn
Fort Wayne
Ind
Messrs
St. L. R
Delaware Marriage Laws Aimed at White Couples
The article outlines Delaware rules requiring white couples to obtain a license and post a $200 bond, with fees totaling $2 for the license plus 50 cents to the clerk. Justices of the peace may issue licenses by purchasing them for 2.50 and charging 3 each to recoup fees. Bonds are often nominal, filed in court archives. A separate provision for colored couples remains a relic from slavery days, used by some for cost savings. The piece notes many colored couples obtain a certificate and recounts a school anecdote about feet and foots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delaware
Clerk of the Peace
Clerk of the Courts
Justices of the Peace
Eig
H. H. Green
Leading Ventures of Youth's Companion IMS Announcement
The Youth's Companion presents six illustrated Serial Stories by Trowbridge and others, two hundred Short Stories and Tales of Ad venture, and essays by Gladstone Tyndall Wolseley Alcott Crook and more. It claims two million weekly readers and offers a $1.75 subscription with free delivery to Jan 1 1885. In Norfolk Virginia a jailed man planned to marry that morning, concealing his identity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
IMS
Trowbridge
Stephens
Wm. H. Gladstone
Professor Tyndall
Lord Wolseley
Louisa M. Alcott
George Crook
Allone
Liquor Habit Remedy Promoted By Vendors Attracting Attention
The Moxie Nerve Food proprietors claim the nervous system governs life and body functions, arguing a strong nerve system enables nutrition and elimination of impurities. A Michigan woman sues her former lover for 3000 dollars, seeking 2000 for heartache and 1000 for trousseau costs.
Discovery of Dr. Pierce cures female ailments and beauty loss
The ad extols Dr. Pierce Favorite Prescription as a universal cure for diseases of women restoring beauty and health. It mentions Miss Lottie Roebuck missing before her wedding, Brown's Bronchial Troches, Peter's Peace collections, and claims of Dr. Pierce Golden Medical Discovery curing consumption. Also notes Dr Kline nerve restorer and textile machinery shipments to mills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery
di Pierce
World's Dispensary Medic Association
Main Street
Buffalo
N. Y
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
Pierce
Pr. Pierce
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Main St
Fight Between Cow and Hog Ends in Cow's Death at Moor's Hill
At Moor's Hill Indiana a quarrelsome Jersey cow and a Poland China hog fought sparking a deadly encounter when the hog gored the cow in the abdomen with his tusks killing her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moor’s Hill
Ind
Central City Station Described in Aerial Perspective
The station sits in the heart of the city facing enue and west by Sherman street. It measures 600 feet deep and 172 feet high from power to tower tips. It lies near the Grant Pacific and mercantile districts, attracting passengers arriving on Eastern trains who seek onward travel.
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Enue
Sherman Street
Tra Ts
Grant Pacific
Mercantile Bowes
Ete
Soo
Rei Street
Pacific Avde
Cove
Iue
Diretiv
Rialto
Banks
Theaacu
Pasurney
Chicagro
Tia
Tira Linte
America
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Oconto County
Pioneer Nursery
Norfolk
Michigan
Lottie Roebuck
a_ Geor
Alairl
Archdiocese of Philadelphia
Kellar
Kalamazoo, Mich
Eva L. Mealey
San Francisco
Kline
Dr. Kline
Arch St
Phila
New York Herald
Beacon Street
Cape Cod
Bill Nye
Charles A. Vogeler Co
Balto
Dee &E
von Deacon
Dr. Bull
Hungary
William B. Franklin
Hartford
Acme Bustle Co
Newton
Iowa
P. O
T. A. Slocum
M.C
Pearl St
Hazard, Hazard & Co
N.Y
Castoria
Hood
G& L Hood & CO
Apothecaries
Lowell
Mass
Pettit
Lady and Centleman
The
Woman Publishing Co
Nassau St
Brewster Safety Rein
Holder Co
Holly, Mich
F. B. Gulley
Milwaukee
Lronson
Detroit, Mich
Yratches
Wallace
A. Charpest Etry Hovssge Illusd Catan
Chicago
Ridden
Stowell & Coe
Charlestown
A-W.mccormick&son
Washington D,c
Cincinnati
Dem Flerer
B.S. Laupersace & Co
Newars
C. H. Warren
Gen. Pass. Agt
St. Paul, Minn
Minnesota
Union
Gen. Pass
Agt
J. Paul
Minn
Montana
Dakota
Val
Horne
Wacash Ave
Adwaya
Radway
Radway & CO
Warren Street
E. T. Hazeltine
Warren
Root
M. C
R. W. Tansieu & Co
State St
Keneiniecon
Webster
Wees J
G.&c. Merri4m & CO
Springfield
Iftsken
Esterbrook
Esterbrook Steel Fen CO
Camden
N. J
John St
Dover Sue Ad
le B& Gargain
Woig Cot Repeating Rifle
Westake
Ated
John P. Lovell Arms Co
Boston
Cincinnati& Obio
Ladbessad Schiadaee
Eurpsy
Rt Ice
Mdur Tin
Tratn
SUN Broadway
Montgomery Ward & CO
Michigan Avenue
Chicaco, EL
Lincoln
Neb
Richardson Drug Co
Omaha
RK Twas
Richard Pr
R . W. W. Astor
Joupan
bin Law
Meriden
Norwich
Berlin College
Yale
University of Penn
Wellesley Llega
Chatanqua Uni
Se Prospectus Posturerrom
Les Oise
C., R I. & P. Railway
Great Rock Island
Albert Sea
Rock Sea
Fisp Bray
SLICH
Werrante
SLIC
Wustrat
Wizard Oil CO
Eugene M. Dixey
Rossville
Staten Island
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